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Switch frontflip?

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teneighty_skier22
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Has anyone ever done it?

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Mar 21 2003 1:33AM
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SeanB
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yeah Shane McConkey can pull them and so can Marc-Andre Belliveau (I don't know how to spell his name) or whatever his name is. McConkeys are pretty small that I've seen but the dude who's name I can't spell pulled a huge one in the 2000 US Open.

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Mar 21 2003 1:38AM
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resnick13
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yeah, they are a super sketchy trick...

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Mar 21 2003 2:17AM
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Matty.
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Mauro Nunez can do them on QP's

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Mar 21 2003 2:34AM
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mtbaker_rules
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i was thinking about them last week when i started pulling switch 180s (a lot of crazy things go through your head after landing a new trick). the landing would be super blind and you could really hurt yourself and your skis. crazy stuff, anybody got it on film?

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Mar 21 2003 3:08AM
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amsterdamned
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check skiingmotion.com if you want to see some, i'd go for a switch backflip first tough.

Mar 21 2003 7:56AM
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anomericas
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it seems like a switch fron would be easier than a switch back, but im probably wrong

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Mar 21 2003 8:40AM
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theBOSS.
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no i think your right, a frontflip is easier to throw and rotate, its just that you never get to go with the jump, you have to fight the way the jump throws you. With a switch frontflip you have the jump going with you and your flipping forward, so I think it would be a lot easier
Mar 21 2003 9:14AM
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lineskier10
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yeah a switch front would seem to be easy if you got enough air
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Mar 21 2003 9:39AM
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theBOSS.
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switch front to late 180 would be sweet
Mar 21 2003 10:46AM
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Karva_extreme
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switch frontflip is hella harder than a switch back!
Mar 21 2003 11:06AM
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west
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if you try it you need a super steep take-off to shoot you up


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Mar 21 2003 11:35AM
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SeanB
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if you can get your hands on scott gaffney's 1999 or Freeze's 2000 US Open video they both have switch fronts. the rotation seems pretty effortless but it's completely blind, marc-andre bites it pretty hard later on in the big air becauses he under rotates. He fucking stomps it in the slopestyle though, then he pulls a huge switch back with a crazy tweaked out mute grab right after, so sick.

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Mar 21 2003 1:57PM
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undercarriage
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Todd Dostal at mount snow does em over the 60 footer, Mike Rosella at mount snow has down them over a 35 footer, Dave Lemilin has done em. They aren't that hard, just don't over rotate to your face
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Mar 21 2003 2:01PM
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WIfreeskier
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a switch barani is called a 'sweaty logger.' Shannon Schad made up i think. that doesn't sound too hard .
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Mar 21 2003 2:18PM
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mommy
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ive never seen a stylie switch front.
Mar 21 2003 2:37PM
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JibbaJabba
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switch front is soooo much harder than switch back all due to its blindness. a switch back you spot your landing almost the second you throw. switch front you dont see your landing til you are on it
Mar 21 2003 3:18PM
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TBarnes
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i did a switch front last saturday. much harder than a switch back.
Mar 21 2003 4:11PM
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Lateralis
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if i remember correctly,derek finn has uploaded a clip of him doing a switch front
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